Could you be a university Vice Chancellor?

Take our senior leadership exam and find out. Answer 2 questions from 5 in 2 hours. Each question is worth 100 marks. Provide evidence where relevant.

  1. You are a senior leader within a university, your staff report they are working 60 hours a week, and you pay audit reveals women are earning 19% less than men, and disabled people are earning 34% less than non-disabled colleagues. Critically evaluate the extent to which this supports staff well-being.
  2. Critically assess the evidence base for workplace well-being interventions such as work-life balance seminars and visits by alpacas.
  3. Your staff survey shows that pay has fallen in real terms by 20% in the last 10 years, while house prices in the last year have increased by 8.8%, and that approximately 60% of key work is delivered by people on precarious contracts. To what extend does this information help to address the ongoing difficulties your organisation has in attracting and retaining world leading scientists
  4. To what extent is a projected 35% cut in pension reflective of socially responsible human resource management?
  5. The student experience is well-served by a workforce which is exhausted, underpaid, and overworked. Drawing in relevant evidence, critically evaluate this statement.